§ SIR W. WEDDERBURN (Banffshire)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the promised Committee of Inquiry into Indian Financial Expenditure will be empowered to recommend increases or reductions in expenditure, particular and general; and whether, if so, the reasonableness of or necessity for any particular payment will be a question for the Committee?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. H. H. FOWLER, Wolverhampton, E.)I think it better to defer the definition of the extent of the proposed reference until I submit the Motion for the appointment of the proposed Committee to the House. But I apprehend that any Committee of Inquiry into expenditure would be empowered to recommend increases or reductions.